sea-oakn.

Etymology: < sea n. + oak n., translating modern Latin quercus marina.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-oak.

The seaweed Fucus vesiculosus, and other seaweeds of similar appearance; bladder-wrack.

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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > bladder-wrack and allies

sea-oak1597

sea-bladder1681

sea-blubber1681

bottle-ore1756

air bladder1770

bladder-wrack1777

black tang1796

sea-bottle1825

bladder-kelp1835

bladder-tangle1857

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1378 Quercus marinus. Sea Oke, or Wrake.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 291 There liues the Sea-oake [Fr. le chesne marin] in a little shel.

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cvi Sea Oke or Wrake.

1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. i. 92 In some of the Alga's or Sea-Oaks I have observ'd various Capsulæ impleted with a pellucid Gelly.

1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 233* The sea-oak (Fucus vesiculosus, Lin.), which we denominate black tang.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 798 The bibulous marine plants, which..have been applied to the strumous tumours in the form of epithems; as sea-wrack (fucus vesiculosus): sea-tang (alga marina), and sea-oak (quercus marina).

Compounds

sea-oak coralline n. the polyp Sertularia pumila.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp

sea-insect1664

sea-bristle1755

sea-cypress1755

sea-hair1755

sea-oak coralline1755

sea-tamarisk1755

sea-oak sertularia1813

sea-wreath1860

1755 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 632 This species I have call'd the sea-oak coralline, from its being most frequently found..adhering to the largest species of the quercus marinus.

1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 290 The Sea Oak Coralline is a common example.

sea-oak sertularia n.

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